Alarmed as COVID patients' blood thickened, New York doctors try new treatments [View all]

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HEALTH NEWS APRIL 22, 2020 / 9:40 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the novel coronavirus spread through New York City in late March, doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital noticed something strange happening to patients’ blood.

Signs of blood thickening and clotting were being detected in different organs by doctors from different specialties. This would turn out to be one of the alarming ways the virus ravages the body, as doctors there and elsewhere were starting to realize.

At Mount Sinai, nephrologists noticed kidney dialysis catheters getting plugged with clots. Pulmonologists monitoring COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilators could see portions of lungs were oddly bloodless. Neurosurgeons confronted a surge in their usual caseload of strokes due to blood clots, the age of victims skewing younger, with at least half testing positive for the virus.

“It’s very striking how much this disease causes clots to form,” Dr. J Mocco, a Mount Sinai neurosurgeon, said in an interview, describing how some doctors think COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, is more than a lung disease. In some cases, Mocco said, a stroke was a young patient’s first symptom of COVID-19.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-blood/alarmed-as-covid-patients-blood-thickened-new-york-doctors-try-new-treatments-idUSKCN22421Z

Was watching last night on Hayes shows, and he had a doctor on that was describing what it was like to see the patients coming in and saying, I am paraphrasing ...................imagine these patients trying to breath, they are at 29,000 feet just like being on Mount Everest, they are huffing and puffing trying to get oxygen into there lungs because the lungs cannot get enough oxygen, and they are trying to expel the carbon dioxide in the lungs, and the lungs cannot get rid of the carbon monoxide fast enough, and they are not getting enough oxygen, that's what happens when your at 29,000 feet you are suffocating because of the lack of oxygen............................and now this report............and libertarians are re-opening parts of the country...........